Animals: Moping Moby

Last
fortnight many a resident of Newport, fashionable Rhode Island resort
town, saw something few landlubbers ever see: a white whale. All week
the great mammal hung close to shore, often displayed a 25-ft.
expanse of white back.

When the white whale left, some observers thought it had headed
up-coast toward New Bedford, whale-conscious Massachusetts town. Others
thought it went across Narragansett Bay toward Block Island. Fanciful
New Englanders said it might be the ghost of famed Moby Dick, returning
to visit the region which he and Author Herman Melville put into...